Course content

Fermentation technology, Material balances, Energy balances, Mixing and Scale up, Mass transfer (Oxygen transfer), Unit operations (Downstream processing) , Homogenous reactions, Bioreactor engineering, Classical and modern development and examples of industrial bioprocesses. Metabolic Engineering with focus on industrial applications, Laboratory exercises with laboratory scale bioreactor.

Learning outcome

The student

• has knowledge of unit operations together with the fundamental principles for basic methods in production techniques for biologically based products;
• has skills to calculate yield, production rates, oxygen and oxygen transfer in a biological production process;
• has skills to design and perform a lab scale bioreactor experiment, including calculate and interpret the measured data;
• has knowledge about traditional and up-to-date methods for optimizing of biologically based production processes;
• has knowledge about industrial bioprocesses, in particular microbial;
• has general competence on contemporary and future fields within industrial biotechnology, incl. bio-refinery, sustainable bioprocessing.

Learning methods and activities

Lectures (56 hours - a combination of classroom theoretical lectures and solving of exercises), mandatory laboratory work (Intensive lab work 24 hours incl report writing). Self study (130 hours). The course will be given in English if international master students are taking the course.

Compulsory assignments

• Exercises

Specific conditions

Recommended previous knowledge

Students taking this course should have basic knowledge in biochemistry and microbiology, at the level of TBT4102 Biochemistry 1 and TBT4110 Microbiology or TBT4170 Biotechnology, and basic chemical engineering studies in heat and mass transfer.

Required programme of study, see specific conditions. Other students may apply to the department and be admitted depending on course capacity.

Course materials

Text book will be specified at the beginning of the semester.

Credit reductions